Alvaro Feal
Post-Doctoral Researcher @ Northeastern University
I received my Computer Engineering Bachelors' from Universidade da Coruña in 2016 and my Masters' in Software and Systems from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid in 2017. After that, I worked as a research intern at IMDEA Software Institute, under the supervision of Prof. Carmela Troncoso.
I obtained my Ph.D. from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2020. During my Ph.D. I worked in Prof. Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez's research group, focusing on the analysis of privacy and security issues on mobile and the web using novel methodologies that combine static and dynamic analysis techniques. My work has been published in different venues such as USENIX Security, ACM IMC, PETS Symposium, IEEE ConPro, and CPDP.
My work has received the Distinguished Paper Award at Usenix Security’19, Personal Data Protection Research Award "Emilio Aced" from the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) in 2020 and 2021 and the CNIL's Privacy Award in 2021. My research has also been featured in international media outlets such as Le Monde, Le Figaro, El Pais, CNET, Business Insider and The Verge.